AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: Re: AMBER: Formatting a restraint file

From: Kara Di Giorgio (kdigiorgio_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: Thu Apr 14 2005 - 10:26:17 CDT

I've read that. It gives a lot of info about, if r2>r1 then this is
used, etc, but no info about the meaning of the values of r1 or r2.
How do you choose the values? What do the actual values mean?

Kara Di Giorgio

On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:06 PM, Furse, Kristina Elisabet wrote:

> Kara-
>
> Have you read p. 121 of the amber8 manual? It describes how r1 through
> r4
> control the restraint potential.
>
> Kristina
>
>
> Quoting Kara Di Giorgio <kdigiorgio_at_sbcglobal.net>:
>
>> I'm trying to set distance restraints between the Ca and the O's of
>> the
>> protein.
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Kara Di Giorgio
>>
>> On Apr 13, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Carlos Simmerling wrote:
>>
>>> do you want positional restraints? in that case you don't
>>> need the disang file. that's for distance, angle or dihedral
>>> restraints. tell us what you are trying to restrain and we can
>>> point you to the right spot...
>>> carlos
>>>
>>> Kara Wald wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to restrain a Ca within a protein for a dynamics
>>>> simulation and am having trouble formatting the DISTANG file.
>>>>
>>>> I've looked at the sample files in the manual and read the section.
>>>> What are r1 through r4? In the manual, there is a blank listed next
>>>> to them and I've found references to "should be formatted like
>>>> r1through r4" but no info about what they stand for/mean.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Kara Di Giorgio
>>>>
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> Center for Structural Biology
> Vanderbilt University
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